23 best-selling medieval history books like Edward I (The English Monarchs Series) by Michael Prestwich

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Edward I (The English Monarchs Series)

By: Michael Prestwich

4.08

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Edward I―one of the outstanding monarchs of the English Middle Ages―pioneered legal and parliamenta…

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1. Henry III: A Simple and God-Fearing King (Penguin Monarchs)

By: Stephen Church

3.69

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Henry III was a medieval king whose long reign continues to have a profound impact on us today. He … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
Cover of Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England by Alison Weir

2. Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England

By: Alison Weir

3.76

Format: 490 pages, Paperback

In this vibrant biography, acclaimed author Alison Weir reexamines the life of Isabella of England,… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
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3. Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-made King

By: Ian Mortimer

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An author with a strong track record now tackles the turbulent reign of Henry IV, the first Lancast… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
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4. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

By: Mary Beard

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. The Oxford History of Medieval Europe

By: George Arthur Holmes

3.43

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Covering a thousand years of history, this volume tells the story of the creation of Western civili… read more

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  • history
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
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6. William I: England's Conqueror

By: Marc Morris

3.00

Format: None pages,

On Christmas Day 1066, William, duke of Normandy was crowned in Westminster, the first Norman king … read more

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  • biography
  • british literature
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
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7. A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain

By: Marc Morris

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king - a man born to rule … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
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8. The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation

By: Ian Mortimer

3.50

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

He ordered his uncle to be beheaded; he usurped his father's throne; he taxed his people more than … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval

9. Mary Barton

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Shirley Foster

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 183… read more

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10. The Fisherman

By: John Langan

3.91

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more

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"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

11. Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381

By: Dan Jones

4.00

Format: 268 pages,

Re-evaluation of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. Dan Jones brings to life the squalor, drama and comp… read more

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12. The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, The Power Behind Five English Thrones

By: Thomas Asbridge

3.00

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

A thrillingly intimate portrait of one of history's most illustrious knights - William Marshal - th… read more

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13. King John

By: William Shakespeare , Paul Werstine

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ru… read more

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14. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066

By: Marc Morris

4.34

Format: 508 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
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15. The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe

By: Martyn Rady

4.13

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

An essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world hist… read more

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  • history
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
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16. The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England

By: Joanne Paul

4.17

Format: 506 pages, Hardcover

Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving an… read more

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  • history
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  • british literature
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17. Henry I: The Father of His People

By: Edmund King

3.70

Format: 116 pages, Hardcover

The youngest of William the Conqueror's sons, Henry I (1100-35) was never meant to be king, but he … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
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18. Henry V: Playboy Prince to Warrior King

By: Anne Curry

3.96

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

Henry V's invasion of France, in August 1415, represented a huge gamble. As heir to the throne, he … read more

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  • history
  • biography
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  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
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19. Edward III: A Heroic Failure (Penguin Monarchs)

By: Jonathan Sumption

3.79

Format: 115 pages, Hardcover

Edward III lived through bloody and turbulent times. His father was deposed by his mother and her l… read more

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  • medieval
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20. Henry II: A Prince Among Princes

By: Richard Barber

3.89

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Henry II (1154-89) through a series of astonishing dynastic coups became the ruler of an enormous E… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • plantagenet
  • medieval history
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  • medieval
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21. John: An Evil King?

By: Nicholas Vincent

3.97

Format: 118 pages, Hardcover

Part of the Penguin Monarchs short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a collectible fo… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
Cover of Stephen: The Reign of Anarchy  (Penguin Monarchs) by Carl Watkins

22. Stephen: The Reign of Anarchy (Penguin Monarchs)

By: Carl Watkins

3.68

Format: 110 pages, Hardcover

Remembered as time in which 'Christ and his saints slept', Stephen's troubled rule plunged England … read more

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  • biography
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23. Richard I: The Crusader King

By: Thomas Asbridge

3.98

Format: 119 pages, Hardcover

Richard I's reign is both controversial and seemingly contradictory. One of England's most famous m… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
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24. Edward II: The Terrors of Kingship (Penguin Monarchs)

By: Christopher Given-Wilson

3.87

Format: 127 pages, Hardcover

'He seems to have laboured under an almost child-like misapprehension about the size of his world. … read more

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  • biography
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
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25. Richard II: A Brittle Glory (Penguin Monarchs)

By: Laura Ashe

3.38

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

Richard II (1377-99) came to the throne as a child, following the long, domineering, martial reign … read more

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  • history
  • biography
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  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
Cover of Henry VI: A Good, Simple and Innocent Man (Penguin Monarchs) by James   Ross

26. Henry VI: A Good, Simple and Innocent Man (Penguin Monarchs)

By: James Ross

3.75

Format: 118 pages, Hardcover

Succeeding to the throne at the age of only nine months, Henry VI had a turbulent reign: he inherit… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • medieval
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27. House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France

By: Justine Firnhaber-Baker

4.30

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of the Capetians, the crusading dynasty that made the French crown the wealt… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • medieval history
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  • medieval
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28. The Song of Simon de Montfort: England's First Revolutionary

By: Sophie Ambler

3.97

Format: 586 pages, Kindle Edition

'Alive with human detail and acute political judgement, this book marks the arrival of a formidably… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • plantagenet
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
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29. Henry V: The Life of the Warrior King & the Battle of Agincourt 1415

By: Teresa Cole

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

In the latter years of the fourteenth century a child was born, so unimportant that even his exact … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • medieval
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30. Edward I (The English Monarchs Series)

By: Michael Prestwich

4.08

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Edward I―one of the outstanding monarchs of the English Middle Ages―pioneered legal and parliamenta… read more

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  • european history
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25 Top history books like Edward I (The English Monarchs Series) by Michael Prestwich

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Stephen Church

3.69

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Alison Weir

3.76

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Ian Mortimer

4.29

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Mary Beard

3.59

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The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction

Helen Graham

3.87

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Susan Wise Bauer

4.00

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Maurice Keen

3.43

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George Arthur Holmes

3.43

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